Hurricane Katrina: 10th Anniversary

A flood of memories

Ten years ago this month, The Dallas Morning News dispatched a team of photojournalists to New Orleans when a deadly Category 5 hurricane slammed into the Crescent City.

The damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina left an everlasting impact on the people and the environment.

The Dallas Morning News photographers spent weeks in the city capturing images of the chaos, pain and suffering.

Their work was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Published August 21, 2015

Hurricane Katrina made landfall with a vengeance, wrenching the roof off Backyard Bar B Que, 10 miles west of New Orleans. (Irwin Thompson/The Dallas Morning News)

Highways, homes and buildings were swamped by water in a view of storm damage looking east toward downtown. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)

Evacuees at the Superdome argued in the tangled line for a bus trip to the Houston Astrodome. All over New Orleans, tempers flared as thousands waited for a way out of town, "This is a desperate SOS."  Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News)

A patchwork of roofs push through the floodwaters east of downtown, one day after Hurricane Katrina's march through the Crescent City. Floodwaters left the city a horrific mix of struggling humanity and swamped infrastructure. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)

Jeremiah Ward got by on makeshift shoes after he was rescued in the Ninth Ward. Many storm evacuees had to flee without crucial possessions. (Irwin Thompson/The Dallas Morning News)

Ibry Smith (right) fell as he helped Norma Rankins out of a boat after they were rescued from a nursing home in the Ninth Ward. (Irwin Thompson/The Dallas Morning News)

Tam Cu, Jason Jackson and Linda Bryant looked for belongings from Ms. Bryant's home which was destroyed by the storm. (Barbara Davidson/The Dallas Morning News)

Police searched a man accused of looting on Interstate 10. They found beer in his bag. (Irwin Thompson/The Dallas Morning News)

People wandered along Interstate 10 near the Superdome. Amid dire predictions, authorities decided to try to empty the city and move residents from the Superdome to shelters in Dallas and Houston in a two-day caravan of buses. (Irwin Thompson/The Dallas Morning News)

Tossed together by crisis, 81-year-old Louis Jones (left) and 62-year-old Catherine McZeal joined forces to navigate Poydras Street in their trek to the Superdome and a chance at evacuation. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News)

Residents sent out a desperate plea for help as they waited to be rescued from the roof of an apartment complex. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)

Texas National Guardsman SPC. Brian Jimenez of Richardson, Texas, was fully armed as he and his North Texas platoon searched for survivors in an area west of downtown. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)

Fire and rescue team members from Vancouver, Canada, carried an elderly woman to a medical tent after she was evacuated. Surrounded by several family members, the woman died moments later. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News)

Eddie Mae Smith, 75, collapsed in her home, which was flooded by Hurricane Katrina and infested with mold and mildew. Bishop Nelson came to check on Ms. Smith and found her in dire condition. Nelson said he needed trailers for people such as Ms. Smith, who couldn't wait for FEMA aid. (Michael Mulvey/The Dallas Morning News)

Tracey Nolan lost track of her seven-month-old son, A'Mahd MaGee, when she was forced to leave for Dallas. A'Mahd had been visiting with a family friend when the storm hit New Orleans, and floodwaters prevented Ms. Nolan from reaching her child before she was evacuated by helicopter. (Melanie Burford/The Dallas Morning News)

Kimi Seymour, 27, took a break from pushing her few remaining possessions along Interstate 10. (Irwin Thompson/The Dallas Morning News)

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Hungry dogs fed on a corpse washed up at the edge of receding floodwaters. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)